Re: Postfix locks 5.1-servers?

  All the time or sometimes?  An unresponsive local console means that the
entire machine is blocked though, not just networking.  I'm using
5-current right now, and obviously I'm able to type this e-mail.

Tom

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Andy Hilker wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> i am using current. Similar problems *without* postfix. Login via ssh
> results in print motd, but nothing more.
> Login on local console results in nothing after pressing enter on
> username.
>
> Andy
>
> You (Tom) wrote:
> >
> >   Usually if networking locks up like this, you should check the mbuf
> > usage.  It is possible for resource starvation to cause a situation where
> > TCP connections are accepted, but can't be sent data.  "netstat -m"
> >
> >   If that doesn't work, I would recommend cvsup'ping one of the machines
> > to -current.  5.1-p10 just has security fixes, not bug fixes.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > are anyone familiar with conditions where postfix may bring a 5.1-p10
> > > server to a halt, making the server accept incoming ports (such as 22) but
> > > serve nothing, making getty(8) become non-respondent (pressing enter
> > > doesn't give any feedback) and making the server ignore ctrl-alt-del etc?
> > >
> > > I've got two boxes running FreeBSD 5.1-p10 and Postfix 2.0.10,1 and
> > > 2.0.13,1. They also have a java process (v1.3.1 and v1.4.1) running, but
> > > that one is an extremely tiny process that can only be accessed from one
> > > specific IP and when executing lives for a couple of milliseconds.
> > >
> > > Does this ring any bells with anyone? We've been at it for a while and not
> > > being able to figure it out. The boxes are quite different hardwareish, so
> > > I don't suspect that being the problem.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > >   Niklas Saers
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